International

25-09-2022 OTTAWA: Powerful storm Fiona, which was downgraded from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone, lashed into eastern Canada on Saturday, cutting power supply to thousands and washing houses into the sea as it pummeled the area with fierce winds and rains “like nothing we’ve ever seen”, police say. Two …

25-09-2022 UNITED NATIONS: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s call for a two-state solution was a “positive development” but said the proof would be a return to negotiations. “The true test of the credibility and seriousness of this stance is for the Israeli government to return …

25-09-2022 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi canceled his interview with Christiane Amanpour for CNN after she refused to cover her head at his behest. Taking to Twitter, Amanpour narrated the whole incident of how a scheduled interview with the Iranian president couldn’t go as planned. Referring to the current …

24-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Hazardous weather has killed at least 36 people in northern India over the past 24 hours, including 12 who died after being struck by lightning. Across the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 24 people died after their homes collapsed during unrelenting rains, Relief …

24-09-2022 HAMILTON, BERMUDA: Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history. Fiona had already battered a series of Caribbean islands earlier in …

24-09-2022 WASHINGTON: The Biden administration has issued a license to relax sanctions on internet services in Iran, saying the move aims to “support the free flow of information” for Iranians amid widespread anti-government protests. The US Treasury Department said on Friday that the decision comes in response to the Iranian …

24-09-2022 LONDON: The British government has unveiled a new mini-budget in the parliament, intending to cut household taxes and energy bills while driving economic growth. In what represents the most significant tax cut budget since 1972, the new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng’s sweeping new budget will see cuts to national …

24-09-2022 DAMASCUS/ TRIPOLI: Dozens of people have died after a boat carrying migrants and refugees from Lebanon capsized off Syria’s coast, according to the Syrian and Lebanese governments. On Friday, the Lebanese transport minister said that 71 people had died in Thursday’s disaster. The Syrian government had previously said that …

24-09-2022 BRAMPTON/ LONDON: Voicing serious “concerns” over what it called “anti-Indian-state activities”, Narendra Modi’s government has protested with Canada for allowing Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) to organise a Khalistan Referendum in the Canadian city of Brampton on September 18, which drew tens of thousands of local Sikhs. Last week Geo.tv …

23-09-2022 LONDON/ DOHA: Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has obtained the largest leak in British political history, exposing how unelected officials undermined democracy within the Labour Party. The leaked data comprises 500 gigabytes of documents, emails, video and audio files from the Labour Party dating from 1998 to 2021. The …